The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Hollywood

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
347 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 American English
433 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 1970 American English
747 Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000 American English
800 The Loved One Evelyn Waugh 1948 British English
1111 Get Shorty Elmore Leonard 1990 American English
1530 Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal 1968 American English
1847 The Little Sister Raymond Chandler 1949 American English
2179 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
2292 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 1988 American English
3170 Hitchcock Francois Truffaut 1966 French French
3220 The American Cinema Andrew Sarris 1968 American English
3413 A Biographical Dictionary Of Film David Thomson 1975 British English
4809 Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz 1977 American English
5705 The Complete Works of Nathanael West Nathanael West 1957 American English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
6821 The Pat Hobby Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1962 American English
7072 Palimpsest Gore Vidal 1995 American English
7772 The Name Above the Title Frank Capra 1971 American English
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
8493 Postcards From The Edge Carrie Fisher 1987 American English
9965 San Remo Drive Leslie Epstein 2003 American English
9987 Pictures At A Revolution Mark Harris 2008 American English
10076 Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter 2012 American English
10368 Cue The Sun! Emily Nussbaum 2024 Unknown English
10440 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
10521 Father Of Frankenstein Christopher Bram 1995 American English
10546 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett 2009 American English
10718 Burn It Down Maureen Ryan 2023 Unknown English
10849 Orson Welles André Bazin 1972 French French
10999 Hollywood Homicide Kellye Garrett 2017 American English
11393 Speed The Plow David Mamet 1988 American English
11663 The Patriarch David Nasaw 2012 American English
13716 Radiance Catherynne M. Valente 2015 American English
13986 The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 1950 American English
14985 The Devil Finds Work James Baldwin 1976 American English
14985 Bury Your Gays Chuck Tingle 2024 Unknown English
14985 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
14985 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
15641 Merton Of The Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1922 American English
15916 Picture Lillian Ross 1952 American English
15916 Hollywood Babylon Kenneth Anger 1959 American English
15916 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
16524 What Makes Sammy Run? Budd Schulberg 1941 American English
17163 The Good, The Bad, And The Multiplex Mark Kermode 2011 British English
17163 For Keeps Pauline Kael 1994 American English
17163 The Queen Of Sugar Hill ReShonda Tate 2024 Unknown English
17163 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17163 The Moon's A Balloon David Niven 1971 British English
17163 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2023 Unknown Unknown
17163 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17163 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17163 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2004 Unknown English
16886 My Autobiography Charles Chaplin 1964 British English
17163 The Path To Paradise Sam Wasson 2023 Unknown English
17163 James Dean Paul Alexander 1994 Unknown English